ON GOLDEN POND
Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn are starring in this drama about an aging couple whose annual trip to their lakeside New England summer cottage offers Fonda a chance to reconcile his relationship with his grown daughter (Jane Fonda) and form a new friendship with her boyfriend's son.
On Golden Pond is a treasure for many reasons, but the best one, I think, is that I could believe it. (...) As everybody knows, this is the first film in which Katherine Hepburn and the two Fondas have acted in any combination with one another. Some reviews actually seem to dismiss the casting as a stunt. I believe it adds immeasurably to the film's effect. If Hepburn and Henry Fonda are legends, seen in the twilight of their lives, and if we have heard that Jane and Henry have had some of the same problems offscreen that they have in this story - does that make the movie simple gossip? No, not if the movie deals honestly with the problems, as this one does. (Roger Ebert)
New copy from the collection of the Academy Film Archive
- Katharine Hepburn - Ethel Thayer
- Henry Fonda - Norman Thayer Jr.
- Jane Fonda - Chelsea Thayer Wayne
- Doug McKeon - Billy Ray
- Dabney Coleman - Bill Ray
- William Lanteau - Charlie Martin
- Ernest Thompson
- Billy Williams
- Kay Rose
- Robert L. Wolfe
- Dave Grusin
- Stephen Grimes
- Dorothy Jeakins
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